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"How do you know it, then?" I asked

My father looked past o"

"He ca in his path without shifting He fulfilled his duty to ed no further bond"

I mulled this over in my brain He o to war and not shift Ja on who they were up against, but not relying on your true form to aid you in battle was almost unheard of these days

My father added, "And you won’t be going anywhere near hi after for that matter"

Well … hell

I’d heard of Connor Dade In my profession, you came across notable stories about bounty hunters and mercs all the ti you always heard after a recounting of one of his exploits was "Whatever you do, don’t fuck with Connor Dade"

I was less familiar with his other aliases, but the one I kneas ically for ato be heard "If Colin Rourke used his real name, and he knoho I really a out who he was" If I was a sin with "He can’t be out to kill ht? He dealt us a hand, and noants to play" Sneaky sucker

The noise level quieted as the wolves chewed on that

"Listen, he deliberately toldto lose my audience "He could’ve used any na to lure me away Screw that, he could’ve juue And if what you’re telling me is true, he would’ve been successful, and all this would be a ru

"This is reading like a go-to, not a ju to share, or knoho’s afterme who he hen he’s had known contact with my father doesn’t nize his na tio?" I looked over at ood idea in retrospect, witha PI and all"

Tyler reluctantly said, "Jessica has a point There has to be sole here Someone like Rourke doesn’t just pop in and announce himself to the world like that He’s a threat to our Pack, and just being in our territory without pero after him"

Sly bastard He knew I’d meet with hi on it

"He’s not stupid," Elliot Murphy added "He’d knoithout a doubt the Pack would recognize his nahter "It also seems he knoho Jessica is already It’s a ballsyto share, because calling to announce he’s here is not his standard MO He’s a brutal bastard If he was hired for a kill, he would not give fair warning" He finished with a little lingering awe in his tone

"He honored our contract during the war," Jaht hard for our side He did not strike me as a man ould kill a female without provocation and I don’t have that impression now He doesn’t take jobs because he has to; he takes the Jessica doesn’t feel like son up for"

"How do you know that?" Cliff Delano asked

Jaed "Because that’s not what I would do"